GAEA Conference Fall 2024

Making a digital gallery is a great advocacy tool. Canva makes it easy. Learn how to use a spreadsheet and data merge within Canva to easily create a digital gallery that can be displayed online. **Make sure you bring your laptop and some digital images of artwork to make your own gallery. **

Calling all aspiring digital artists! Join us for a fun and informative workshop where you'll learn to create inspiring artwork like Jason Naylor, whose vibrant illustrations promote positivity. Using a Wacom One tablet and the free program Kleki, we'll explore the magic of digital drawing. This workshop will equip you with essential skills like layering, opening the door to exciting creative fields like graphic design. Get ready to transform your ideas into stunning visuals and explore how digital art can make a positive impact on the world! **Teachers will need to bring a computer/laptop.**

In this workshop, we will present a project progression that we use in 3rd - 5th grade art that focuses on the self portrait as way for students to explore identity, representation and personal story telling. Starting with a traditional approach to drawing the self portrait in third grade and progressing through a digital self-portrait in the style if Kehinde Wiley in fourth grade and ending with a digital manipulation in 5th that we call "Multiplicity". We will discuss the spiraled approach and why we feel that it helps to develop deeper learning and personal connection to these projects. This workshop will explore the use of digital media as an art making tool that can connect to traditional media in a practical way. Examples and lesson details will be provided. **Bring your ipad or digital device if you want to create along with us.**